Fishbowl

Good copy of SAP, but VERY lacking. Half-assed solution

What do you like best? The interface is very user-friendly and it is easy to navigate. Some of the support guys are really good. What do you dislike? It is in a limbo between wanting to replace QuickBooks and not. You have to create invoices on Fishbowl to track inventory, but it cannot track payment credits. So, refunds and exchanges are impossible without manually adjusting the invoices on Quickbooks. Cannot handle partial shipment well. Doesn't have agiring A/R and A/P summary. ...

Fishbowl is great for fitment for the auto industry

What do you like best? If you have a list of over 1,000 products, Fishbowl is great. It integrates well with accounting and fitment for auto/boat parts. It saves every customer's order which is very useful because we get repeat customers, however it may have been years since they last ordered a certain part. We can look up previous orders from them which aids in customers only ordering what they need and no more. That in turn keeps the customers happy and coming back. What do you dislike? ...

Better the more you learn

What do you like best? Fishbowl is a nice program. Easy to create PO's and sales orders and makes receiving quick. What do you dislike? The learning curve on FB is steep but once you understand is is easier. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Tracking stock items and project related PO's and receiving.

great to use, simplies our ordering process from manual to online

What do you like best? not having to manually enter product orders for retailers. What do you dislike? minimal support or you have to pay for it after spendng thousands of dollars Recommendations to others considering the product efficicient and easy for organization and inventory control What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? renewal happens after we paid 15,000 it should have been included

Easy to use!

What do you like best? Easy to use reports, wide range of capability What do you dislike? Difficult to customize, somewhat clunky. Had to pay developer each time we needed a customized report. Isn't cloud based, so can only remote access via VPN. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Easy to gather data and compile metrics

Support People

What do you like best? FhishBowl support people are *Johnny on the spot*!! Just wonderful people to work with!! Resolved the issue fast! Nuff said. What do you dislike? Software has a few bugs. Support has always addressed them when found. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Inventory control and shipping integration.

User friendly software

What do you like best? The menu set-up is pretty straightforward and easy to figure out without having to look for instructions. I also like that you can move columns around and personalize the data configuration. What do you dislike? Nothing yet honestly, it works for what I need it to do and nothing about it really stands out as being annoying in any way. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? It gives us the benefit of being able to ...

Easy to use. User friendly. Not ideal for big businesses.

What do you like best? Simple to navigate, user friendly, easy layout, quick to fix any user errors. Also, to place a RFQ/Bid Request into a PO, all you have to do is "Issue" the order! This is much more simple than previous quote to purchase order processes than I've dealt with on other systems. It is also one-click to un-issue a order as well. What do you dislike? Basic reports that most companies would utilize such as "Vendor Open Orders, Reorder Report, Receiving History, and ...

Great for smaller businesses or those just starting!

What do you like best? User interface is very visually guided allowing for easy location of functions. What do you dislike? Some features are hidden or hard to undo. What business problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? It was used to track the product he had going in and out of the warehouses as well as between the two. It greatly increases our knowledge of our stock and allowed us to better predict when new stock was needed or when to put stock ...

It is missing some essentials, but overall is good

What do you like best? The platform and the UI, it is easy to move through modules. What do you dislike? It does not accept payments to balance or payments to an account. Customers are only seen by their name and not by their account number. Customers cannot have same name, so you have to be creating differences between them like putting a number to them ( ex: John Doe 1, 2 ,3 ,4...... Estimates run inside the balance when they shouldn't. Recommendations to others considering the ...